{"id":5272,"date":"2022-07-05T21:44:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/has-fought-for-years-to-get-sola-municipality-to-do-its-job-news-rogaland-local-news-tv-and-radio\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T21:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:44:48","slug":"has-fought-for-years-to-get-sola-municipality-to-do-its-job-news-rogaland-local-news-tv-and-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/has-fought-for-years-to-get-sola-municipality-to-do-its-job-news-rogaland-local-news-tv-and-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Has fought for years to get Sola municipality to do its job – news Rogaland – Local news, TV and radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is February 22, 2022. Silje Marita Tjelta has a birthday and has turned 33 years old. She sits in the kitchen, looks out the window at the farm and the lands she owns, but is not allowed to decide over. – It hurts that I have had to sit for so many years and just watch the farm fall into disrepair like that, says Tjelta. For a long time she has wanted to run the farm she owns herself. But due to a contract that others signed on her behalf when she was an infant, she is not allowed. Maybe this can change now. Tjelta has just received a letter she has been hoping for for several years. She has received a letter from Sola municipality. The contract that made Tjelta the farm owner news first told about Tjelta in January. Tjelta then said that she experienced being ignored by the municipality. She believed Sola municipality broke the law that obliges them to respond to inquiries. The story of how Tjelta ended up in this situation started in 1989, the year Silje Marita Tjelta was born. Plans had already been made for the farm before her mother’s death. It was to be taken over by Tjelta’s mother and run together with a person associated with her. But the death changed everything. The person associated with Tjelta’s mother is anonymised and in this case is referred to as a tenant. The tenant had strong desires to run the farm even after the death, but himself had no right of inheritance or license to be able to take it over. The farm of Silje Marita Tjelta as it once looked. Photo: Private Based on Tjelta’s noble right, a proposal was submitted where the farm was put in her name. The tenant was given the rights to run the farm as his own, on Tjelta’s behalf. Tjelta was 3.5 months old and became the landowner of the farm. In this way, they avoided the farm being sold as additional land to neighboring farms. The tenant tells news that to this day he regrets this. – This was an emergency solution to keep the farm in the family. We thought it was okay to transfer the whole farm to Silje since she would inherit it sooner or later. But I regret today that we did it that way, says the tenant. – I was locked to this farm Due to Tjelta’s young age, the plan had to be approved by the guardianship in the municipality. Until 2013, this was a municipal body that took care of the funds and interests of minors. What should be a good solution for everyone, Tjelta thinks became her nightmare. As a landowner, Tjelta fears being held financially responsible for what the tenant does on the farm. She can also not sell the farm without the tenant following as an encumbrance. Silje Marita Tjelta believes that there is not much to show that the property is actually a farm. Photo: Ole Andreas B\u00f8 \/ news – I feel exploited and have wanted to take care of the farm myself, says Tjelta. She says she wants to grow organic vegetables, while her husband and children want animals on the farm. But it has proved difficult. Tjelta believes that over the years, guidelines have been laid down by the municipality which means that the rights the tenant received are outdated. The tenant disagrees with this. Tjelta has therefore had to fight to get Sola municipality to do its job as supervisory authority for the farm. The case ended in court Tjelta took the case and the tenant to court in 2015. She tried to have the contract revoked and thought it was unreasonable. Among other things, because she thought the tenant did not have the right permits to run the farm. Here is Silje Marita Tjelta in the arms of her mother. Photo: Private The district court ruled that Tjelta was right. The lessee should have had his own license, and a division should have been applied for in accordance with the Land Act. But Sola municipality had not followed up as the supervisory authority for the farm, and the judge emphasized that it was a case between the tenant and the municipality. The municipality would not comment on the lawsuit. The 1989 contract was considered valid and not unreasonable. The tent lost in the district court and the tenant was allowed to keep the operating rights. The municipality gave guidance Tjelta then chose to appeal the case to the Court of Appeal. Before the case got this far, papers were found in the municipality’s agricultural department which Tjelta felt strengthened her case. Tjelta received documentation that the conditions had changed, that the municipality had laid down guidelines for who actually had the rights to the farm now that she was of age. The municipality’s guidelines: As a condition for this, the tenant had to move to and live on the farm (fulfill the residency requirement) on her behalf for five years. It was also stipulated that the tenant had to run the farm in a responsible manner. The tenant must therefore be exempted from the residency requirement on Tjelta’s farm. Sola municipality says yes to this, but emphasizes that it is all considered a step on the way to Tjelta is old enough to live on the farm itself. It also appears in the decision Tjelta must be allowed to decide for herself over the property when she is old enough. The municipality would not comment on the appeal either. They pointed out that the contract and the agreement from 1989 are private law. Sola municipality also believed that they did not have the authority to do anything in connection with the permits the tenant lacked. Tjelta chose to withdraw the appeal in the Court of Appeal. She reached a settlement with the tenant. – It was too much of a strain overall in my life. I was not able to complete the case, says Tjelta. Silje Marita Tjelta feels sad because she thinks the farm and the lands have fallen into disrepair. From topsoil to illegal landfilling The relationship between Tjelta and the tenant is becoming increasingly conflict-filled. – My whole life has been marked by this. It has been extremely difficult, says Tjelta. Although she has not been able to run the farm herself, she has lived there in a separate house since 2012 and fulfilled the residency requirement on the farm. In 2015, the tenant started a land improvement project. Tjelta believes that in reality it destroys the earth. news has reviewed a number of documents related to the farm and the tenant’s operation. The municipality and the State Administrator believe that the tenant has dumped masses that are not legal on the farm. Photo: Ole Andreas B\u00f8 \/ news Silje Marita Tjelta hopes the tenant will clean up the farm as the municipality and the State Administrator have decided that he must. Photo: Ole Andreas B\u00f8 \/ news One day, Tjelta hopes that animals will graze on the field again. Photo: Ole Andreas B\u00f8 \/ news – Redskapshuset and g\u00e5rdstunet have for several years been rented out as storage and much of the land has become a landfill, says Tjelta. In January 2021, Sola municipality stated that what the tenant thought was a land improvement project was in fact an illegal landfill. The municipality believed that the soil and the masses that the lessee has driven in are illegal, that there is asphalt and concrete in the soil, at the same time as too much mass has been run over an area that is too large than what was applied for. The tent shows its own documents which tell that asbestos has been found. Different interpretations The tenant is clear that he and Tjelta have two different interpretations of both the agreement from 1989 and what has taken place on the farm. The tenant disagrees with the municipality’s decision on the landfill. Hen claims that it is all about a soil improvement project to make the fields less hilly. Sola municipality has nevertheless stood its ground and decided that the tenant must clean up. In June 2022, this has not yet been done. The state administrator in Rogaland has looked at the case and supports the municipality’s decision on the landfill and that the tenant must clean up. From January 2022, he has therefore been obliged to pay daily fines of NOK 1,000 to the municipality, but these have not been paid either. The tenant: – The tent could have bought me out – The tent should be grateful, says the tenant. The tenant believes that Tjelta would never have become the landowner of the farm if it had not been for him. Hen also believes that Tjelta has had the opportunity to buy out of the contract, and that the conflict could have been over a long time ago. – I did not want to give up the rights without getting back money I have invested, the tenant says. news has seen the offer the lessee sent to Tjelta in 2015, but there were never negotiations. – I have never received a single factual offer, apart from buying my own farm at full market price, says Tjelta. The tenant on the page says that he did not receive any counter-offer from Tjelta. – If we had reached an agreement, this case would have been completed in 2015, writes in an e-mail to news. Sola municipality: – A demanding case Sola municipality does not want to comment on this case beyond that they can confirm that Tjelta has now received a letter. Knut Underbakke, municipal director in Sola municipality, told news in January that the municipality had received over a hundred written inquiries related to the farm, in the last two years alone. Photo: Erik Waage \/ news When news published the case about Tjelta’s fight against the municipality in January, municipal director Knut Underbakke said that the cases related to the farm, Tjelta and the tenant, were very demanding. He encouraged Tjelta to contact the municipality again. Tjelta took him at his word and arranged a meeting. The letters on the birthday She took with her the old decisions from the agricultural department in the municipality, the verdict from 2015 and the contract from 1989. She referred to the Land Act and the Licensing Act. The municipal director said Sola municipality should go through all the papers. Tjelta waited, until 22 February. She turned 33 that day. Coincidentally, she received the letters she had been hoping for for so many years. Silje Marita expressed her joy over the letters the day they arrived. There were copies of documents sent to the tenant. One is about the landfill. The tenant is reminded that it is illegal and that he must remove the mass. The municipality writes that they are considering giving the tenant a fine since he has not yet given any feedback on whether he has plans to clean up. The second document is about what Tjelta has hoped for the most. Finally, the municipality has followed up as a supervisory authority. Now Sola confirms what Tjelta has claimed for so many years. The tenant lacks a license to run the farm. The lessee lacks consent to division under the Land Act. – This can lead to the contract being terminated, Tjelta believes. For the first time in her life, Silje Marita Tjelta sees that there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. – I have hope, she says. Photo: Ole Andreas B\u00f8 \/ news – The best birthday present I could get – Now I feel for the first time that I have been heard, she says. But nothing is over yet, she knows there is still a long way to go. Tjelta risks great financial losses due to the damaged food soil, but now she has her hopes restored. In the letters, the tenant is given a deadline to apply for the right permits, but for everything to be officially approved, it also requires Tjelta’s signature as a landowner. That’s why Tjelta is happy. Now she is an adult and can decide completely even if she wants to sign.
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